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BAGHDAD, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Iraqi Interior Ministry officials have confirmed some of the 55 employees it charged with torturing inmates of a Baghdad prison remain free.
While the charges were announced Monday by The Washington Post, officials said warrants had been issued as long as two months ago following a 5-month investigation, The New York Times reported.
The ministry did not say why some of those charged remained free, nor how many were at large, the Times said.
The investigation was done at the prison known as Site 4, where a joint Iraqi-U.S. inspection in May found evidence of torture among more than 1,400 prisoners. Among them were 37 children and teenagers, and some prisoners showed signs of having been hung by their arms or beaten, the report said.
Sunni Muslims have accused the government of allowing Shiite militants to work in security services and torture and kill prisoners.
Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said in late May when he took office he would clean militants out of the ministry and last month began reorganizing police forces, the Times said.
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